Engine
Yanmar 3JH40
Total Power
40hp
Engine Hours
284
Class
Cutter
Length
45ft
Year
2002
Model
39
Capacity
-
Boat Details
Description
PRICE REDUCED by $25K!
Motivated seller!
Shoestring, perhaps the most renowned Shearwater 39 of all, is reluctantly up for sale, her current owner no longer able to do her justice.
Fitted out and launched in 2002 by Peter Muzik, a well known South African sailing character, for the specific purpose of completing a circumnavigation, she was an ideal choice for the task ahead. Classically beautiful lines disguise a fast, stable, and smooth-riding hull form, providing a wonderful platform for covering large distances in safety and comfort. Her clipper bow keeps her decks dry and her optional long bowsprit creates a larger foretriangle for greater sail options. Likewise, the masthead inner forestay provides better sail options with the added bonus of a more securely supported mast. An inner-inner forestay up to the top spreaders takes her storm jib, both inner stays using Highfield levers for deck quick-detachment. Twin backstays, running backstays, a twin-spreader high duty Sparcraft mast, round off a vessel fit-for-purpose. Built to Lloyds specifications for blue-water sailing, this was exactly her raison d’etré. Solo sailing presents no shortcomings, with her direct-to-rudder windvane steering system, powerful autopilot, and well equipped cockpit. Lewmar 56st primary winches make sail trimming a breeze; everything about this yacht has been well-considered.
This is no pampered yacht, being well exercised and pushed to made up for her current owner’s shortcomings, which she has always done unfailingly. Her price reflects the fact that a spruce-up would not go unappreciated. All new electronics in 2016/7 and repowered with a Yanmar 3JH40 in 2018(currently with a tad over 300hrs) mean major expenses are avoided.
If easy shorthanded sailing, plus owning the most beautiful yacht in the marina/anchorage tick your boxes, then Shoestring deserves your serious consideration.
Measurements
Dimensions
Nominal Length:44.62ft
Length Overall:44.62ft
Length on Deck:39.04ft
Max Bridge Clearance:56.43ft
Beam:12.8ft
Cabin Headroom:6.56ft
Miscellaneous
Windlass:electric-windlass
Liferaft Capacity:4
Electrical Circuit:12v
Tanks
Fresh Water Tanks:2 × 66.04gal
Fresh Water Tank Material:grp
Fuel Tanks:1 × 42.27gal
Fuel Tank Material:plastic
Holding Tanks:1 × 10.57gal
Holding Tank Material:grp
Accommodations
Cabins:3
Heads:1
Propulsion
Engine Make:Yanmar
Engine Model:3JH40
Engine Year:2018
Total Power:40hp
Engine Hours:284
Engine Type:inboard
Drive Type:direct
Fuel Type:diesel
Features
Electrical Equipment
Inverter:Victron Phoenix 12/800
Electronics
Depthsounder:✓
Radar:Raymarine Quantum radar
Wind Speed and Direction:Raymarine i60
Repeater(s):Cockpit.
Navigation Center:✓
Plotter:Raymarine eS97
Autopilot:Raymarine ACU200
Radio:✓
Compass:x2
GPS:Garimin SPSmap 76 handheld
VHF:Raymarine Ray60 with DSC
Inside Equipment
Electric Bilge Pump:x 4
Oven:Force 10 2 burner with oven.
Manual Bilge Pump:one large in saloon.
Air Compressor:12V
Electric Head:Jabsco compact
Hot Water:Valiant gas waterheater to handbasin.
Refrigerator:✓
Outside Equipment
Teak Cockpit:✓
Wind Generator:Eclectic Energy D400 with Xantrex charge
Tender:Zodiac 2.5M PVC with Mercury 5hp
Solar Panel:300 W with Victron MPPT 100/15 controller
Liferaft:Viking 4 man cassette
Rigging
Steering Wheel:✓
Spinnaker Pole:plus jockeypole
Sails
Fully Battened Mainsail:North with 2 reefs
Storm-jib:✓
Gennaker Cruising Spinnaker:Quantum reaching gennaker
Genoa:110% Ullman Genoa
Trisail:✓